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COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

It’s been a busy year in Computer Science.

E-safety was among the topics that Year 7 pupils
studied this year. They learnt how to keep safe while
surfing the internet and created an e-booklet in MS
Publisher to reflect their learning. In “Under the
Hood”, pupils learnt about the different physical
components of a computer system. They use MS Excel
to create spreadsheets and were introduced to using
formulas in their model. Year 7 pupils ended the school
year learning how to create a web page in HTML.

Year 8 pupils learnt how to control automatics systems
using FLOWOL software. In addition, they created a
space invader game, they learnt advance spreadsheet
skills in MS Excel and used Scratch software to create a
PACMAN game.

Year 9 pupils brushed up their word processing and
presentation skills in term one. In the second term,
they learnt how to trace though algorithms and
flowcharts. They also used problem solving skills to
created algorithms and used Python program code for
a variety of programming challenges.

Year 10 pupils learnt how to convert to and from
decimal, binary and hexadecimal number systems,
they learnt about hardware and further developing
their problem solving skills. Year 11 pupils brushed
up on last year’s work and worked hard to prepare
for the June examinations. Among the topics year 13
pupils studied were Recursion, Boolean algebra (and
logic circuits), Object Oriented Programming and
Declarative Programming.

Mrs. Maria Quiroga
Head of Computer Science Department

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